Quotes by Auden, W. H.

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to re >>

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he re >>

As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one' >>

Quotations about America

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to >>

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the sto >>

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the s >>

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

Auden, W. H.